[ale] Bash script help

[Jim Kinney]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Doctor Who <whodoctor at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to return the value of when the last time the root password
> was changed.  The script would do something like:
>
> 1) more /etc/shadow | grep root | awk -F: '{print $3}'


at this point you have  days since Jan 1, 1970 password was last changed. If
you have put this into a variable, you off to the races

>
> 2) Take above value and add 1

shell math. refer to
http://www.ale.org/archive/ale/ale-1997-11/msg00160.html

>
> 3) Multiple the result by 86400

see above

>
> 4) Substitute the value above after the @ below

use your now modified variable

>
> 5) date -d @XXXX +"%B %d %G"
> 6) Give me the output value of this
>
> I would like to keep this done using bash.  Any help appreciated.


Basically you just string these things along saving the parts as needed in a
variable.

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